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The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Ep. 317: Bob Nightengale sees White Sox going after ”the big boys” in free agency

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Sports:baseball, Baseball

4.7620 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Chuck Garfien and Ryan McGuffey talk about the rumors connecting the White Sox to premium free agents like Anthony Rendon and Stephen Strasburg (1:30). Then they call up USA Today's Bob Nightengale at the GM Meetings in Arizona who confirms that's what he's hearing (8:20). How realistic is this? (10:10) Does the front office feel the need to make a big splash? (11:20) Is there a Scott Boras factor with the White Sox? (13:30) and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, you're listening to The White Sox Talk Podcasts. It's brought to, as always, by WinTrust, Chuck Garfine, with you. And today in the podcast, we're going to talk to Bob Nightingale.

0:17.5

USA Today baseball columnist. The GM meetings are underway in Arizona and the White

0:23.1

Sox name is at the tippy top of rumors with respect to the big names in this market.

0:31.6

Garrett Cole, Anthony Rendon, Steven Sprosberg, are you kidding me? So we got to go out to Arizona,

0:36.6

the GM meetings and speak with Bob Nightingale of USA Today, right here, right now on the White Sox Talk Podcast.

0:50.8

White Sox, White Sox, go, go, White Sox!

0:54.7

That ball hit deep way back.

0:57.0

Deep time, Bradford!

0:58.8

Holy cow!

1:00.5

Charlton Fins has put the White Sox ahead.

1:03.8

Jimenez leaves the ballpark.

1:06.6

You can put it on the board!

1:09.5

Yes!

1:10.6

We got a chance to do something real special.

1:12.6

All right, sit back, relax, and strap it down.

1:14.6

It's time for the White Sox Talk Podcast.

1:21.6

All right, Ryan McGuffie is with me.

1:24.6

We're going to give Nightingale a call in a moment.

1:32.9

This was a surprise. I think we've just all assumed, even though we've talked a little bit about Garrett Cole,

1:39.0

but Anthony Rendon, we just assumed the White Sox would have no interest in going down the road with Rendon for whatever reason.

1:44.0

But here, the GM meetings have begun, and it's a little bit like deja vu, where we're hearing the White Sox name attached to these big names, whether it's realistic or not, that they actually get them or not. Yeah, look, it's where you want to be. You want to be in the conversation. Rendon excites me. Don't get me wrong. I don't want to say I'm a little surprised because I'm with you. Everyone, we fell in love

2:01.0

with Makata. But this goes back to something our colleague and friend Chris Campcoe always says,

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